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I know we've been odds ever since we've started speaking, but I wish the best, and not just because I'm hoping to mend that. Hope it all goes well, promise everything will be (mostly, some people keep chewing the furniture) intact when you get back. :P Have fun!

You clear up some misconceptions about tea quite nicely.

But this is my mid-semester break! I was going to have a chance to grab you for a proper syntax chat!

Ah, well. Have fun!

I mean, I might be a shameless Cowboy Bebop fan, but either of them would fit for our main theme pretty much perfectly. We could even slightly PPC-ify the latter's lyrics. "I ain't 'fraid of no Sue..." For Emergencies, March of Cambreadth would work for the Agents' mindsets. "Guard your women and children well, send these bastards back to hell! We'll teach them the ways of war, they won't come here any more! Close your mind to stress and pain, fight till you're no longer sane... let not one damn cur pass by! HOW MANY OF THEM CAN WE MAKE DIE?!"

Not sure exactly where we'd fit it, but I'd be fond of using The Battle Cry of Freedom if we could find a spot for it. For some reason, I can see "Don't you forget about me" as the song for retiring/recently deceased Agents. Maybe I'm just in a weird mood. New recruit theme could be the main Morrowind theme, it's always given me the feeling of discovering a new 'verse, with all sorts of unexpected challenges and experiences ahead of you. And another weird one from me- the Yarrow's plans to infect the PPC with Macroviruses set to "Be Prepared".

That's all I can think about music-wise for now, but I'll post here with other ideas as I think of them. With the September thing, I'll see if it's possible. Not entirely sure.

Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion. {; )

My goal with this essay is to hook people whose palates are not as cultured refined developed as yours--people who are likely to start with Lipton or some such thing, which has its good points but really gets nasty after too long. Also, I don't want to scare them. Target audience, my friend. Target audience.

Some day, I will go back to England, hunt you down, and force you to make tea for me. Then we'll see what's what.

Oh, thanks for the spelling catch, too. Don't know what possessed me.

~Neshomeh

With none of those silly sweetenings like mild, honey, sugar, etc. *grins*

I protest!

For one, it's misled, not mislead.

For a second, there is NO SUCH THING as overly brewed tea. Up to an hour in a builder's boot is best. And what you call steeping is what we call stewing. Often to the point where you could stand a spoon up in it, in my case.

Your up to five minutes is wrong too. Ideal brewing time is seven minutes, as timed by the smoking of a hand-rolled cigarette. And green and white teas need the teabag leaving in throughout the drinking process.

Oh, and there is totally a right way to drink tea. :P


~Pads, who could debate the supremacy of "real" tea till the cows come home

Getting horribly sunburnt and chasing a three year old around for a fortnight? It'll be a blast. :D

Down in the tea thread, I mentioned an essay I wrote on the subject. That thread's been pushed a way down the page, and I'm a shameless junkie for attention to my writing, so I'm putting the link up here as well as down there, lest anyone interested should miss it.

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2687303/1/InDefenseof_Tea

It was intended for people who are new to tea, I hope some of you who fall into that category find it helpful. {= )

~Neshomeh

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2687303/1/InDefenseof_Tea

Enjoy. {= )

~Neshomeh

Alas, alackaday, woe and calamity! For you shall all be forced to get by without your resident tactless alcoholic for the next fortnight. I be off to Cornwall to visit my sister and my new niece (Mina, born on Wednesday. 7lbs 13, and very ginger, for those that care). Betaing and drunken rambling services are thus hereby on hold.

Have fun, all, and don't trash the place while I'm gone.

It's not like said dedication was a conscious decision. We just take our tea very seriously round here, plus English, plus my dad drinks gallons of tea daily. I never really stood a chance.

I'm also not looking forward to tea over the next two weeks - I'm off to my sister's, and their water's really soft and the milk's soya. It's just Not Right.

If I ever utterly lose my mind and decide to take up coffee, I shall remember this. Ta.

Although the machine thing is more because they don't whip up the espuma. Because they have no time.

Ugh.

Although, I can understand why you're so awesomely gung-ho:

I'm Cuban.

I make Cuban coffee.

I make it well.

And from my perspective, Cuban coffee made from a machine is soulless drivel with no chance to be done properly - sometimes the makers don't even whip up the espuma - can you believe that?

The proper way is to make sure the water in the bottom part of the pot is at the half-way point of the bolt PRECISELY - otherwise it's too strong or too weak - then packing down the grounds flat so that you can get more flavor in. Finally, screwing down the entire thing as tight as you can unless you like boiling water flying at your eyeballs.

THEN, once that's done, you put three spoonfuls (three and a half for me) of sugar into the metal cup, and when the coffee is up, just put the slightest bit in. Then, whip it up so until it's at the approximate consistency of a milkshake. After that is done, pour the coffee in to get the espuma.

Then, and only then, do you have the perfect cafecito.

What can't you find, pray?

Also, that's a really interesting way to have tea.

All tea is weird flavored water.

Though I must respect your dedication to the drink.

Down to two, remember?

Don't worry. If I'm in the DBS by the time it comes along, I'll volunteer to send my agents in. I'm protective of LBT.